Evil Peter Tobin used our young son as bait, says killer's ex-wife

SERIAL killer Peter Tobin's ex-wife has told how the monster used their son as bait to rape young girls.

SERIAL killer Peter Tobin's ex-wife has told how the monster used their son as bait to rape young girls.

But Cathy Wilson, 41, who met Tobin when she was just 16 and became his third wife, believes son Daniel also saved her own life.

Tobin - serving a lifetime sentence for three brutal sex murders - has boasted in prison of killing 48 victims.

And Cathy says she is certain if she had not given birth to Daniel, she would have been No49.

Cathy, who is writing a book on how she survived her years with the twisted killer, said: "I feel very fortunate. I think when I had his son I changed in his eyes from being another potential victim to being a possession.

"I think that's why I'm still alive, to be quite honest. I directly fit the profile of any other girl he's been associated with ... and I really don't think I should be here today."

Cathy met Tobin in Brighton and moved with him to Bathgate, West Lothian.

She fled the marriage in 1990 after suffering two years of Tobin's perverted cruelty.

But she was forced to allow him access to Daniel. And his son was staying with him in his home in Havant, Hampshire, when he carried out a sickening drug-rape on two young girls.

And Cathy says Tobin - who believed he'd already got away with the 1991 murders of Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol - used his little boy to entice his 14-year-old victims.

She explained: "It transpires that he lured the girls into the house, I believe, on some pretext they were going to babysit for Daniel and I think he must have offered them a glass of something, which was drugged.

"The police said there were copious amounts of alcohol and drugs in their system.

"So Daniel was the lure to get the girls to go into the house."

Chillingly, Tobin called Daniel from his bed at one point to get him some ice to clean up blood on the floor.

Cathy said: "So Daniel was in the kitchen for a few minutes then thankfully went back out again.

"I don't know how a man could do that to his own son, really."

It was only when Tobin was sentenced to 14 years for the double rape that Cathy could truly get herself and Daniel, now 21, away from him.

Now, despite all the horrors she has endured, she believes the world does not yet know the full extent of Tobin's evil.

She said: "There's going to be many more to come out and it makes me feel very sick that that man ever touched me."